How is it that someone as big as Kirby couldn't get backers to produce successful indie comics?
Kirby was incredibly out of fashion by mainstream readers by the mid 70s and was looking for job stability by then, not trying to take any more experimental ventures that were financial risks. As comics stopped working for him, he was embraced by animation work which offered a steady paycheck for his ideas alone. even if they were never executed to a fraction of his skills
>>152591514thats a shame
>>152591481He was a work horse, not a business man.
>>152594324so?
>>152591481because we live in a planet full of retarded subhuman mongoloids like you
>>152591481Perhaps he had the drive to make great art but lacked the drive to do great business.
>>152591481he tried it in the 50s and lost a lot of money doing it>>152594324no, he was a business man, and he understood that what had made money for him was working for Marvel, that's why he went back to them after DC screwed him over, it's why he ended up getting tv work through his old friend Stan Lee, and it's why he eventually went back to DC to do the bare minimum of work to qualify for reprint money under their new contracts in the early 1980s
